Neil Rush, the
Treasurer of the Hutt Valley Motorsport Club, has applied to temporarily close
Reynolds Bach Drive, Silverstream on Friday 14 April 2017 from 7:00 a.m. to
6:00 p.m. for the HVMC Silverstream Hillclimb Event 2017.

2. City Promotions
Support

The City Promotions
Division has assessed the proposed event with regard to its contribution
towards Council’s strategies and policies and the event is consistent with the
objectives and outcomes of those strategies.

3. Proposal Notice

The public notice
that the Council was proposing to consider this closure was published in The
Hutt News on Tuesday 14 February 2017.

4. Consultation

Consent has been
obtained from all of the residents and businesses located on Reynolds Bach
Drive.

No objections were
received in response to the public proposal notice.

5. Traffic Impact
Assessment

Prior Closures

The proposed
closure for this event will not result in the road being closed for an
aggregate of more than 31 days this year, i.e. it does not exceed the Local
Government of not more than 31 days in any year.

Traffic Impacts

In the opinion of
Lyle Earl, Traffic Asset Manager, acting as Council’s Traffic Engineer, the
proposed closure, if implemented according to the plans provided, is not likely
to impede traffic unreasonably.

These events have
become well established in Hutt City and they appear to be generally well
accepted by the public who accept the traffic effects as a reasonable trade-off
for the benefits provided by the events.

In this particular
instance there should be little in the way of wider network effects because of
the day of the week and the minor nature of the road involved.

I am of the view
therefore that the proposed closure will be acceptable in terms of its traffic
related effects subject to a high degree of awareness being achieved through
advertising and a high standard of on street signage and traffic control at the
closure points.

Lyle Earl

Traffic Asset
Manager

6. Conditions
of Closure

Subsequent to
approval the organiser will be written to with the standard conditions that
will apply, being:

· The closure shall
apply only to the roads for the hours as approved.

· The applicant shall
allow access for all emergency vehicles.

· The applicant will
act as directed by the Police or by officers of the Road Controlling Authority
(HCC). A contact name for the Police is given to the applicant.

· The applicant will
be responsible for ensuring closed roads are left in a suitable clean and tidy
state following completion of the event. A contact name and phone number for
Intergroup Ltd., Councils Street Cleaning Contractor, is also given to the
applicant.